Purse Tag

This is for you, E...
Big or small, I like 'em all! So here they are...(I left a few out of the photo). I try to keep the junk all in one mini bag, so I can trade purses on my slightest whim...someone did ask me why I carry two wallets...one is a planner/coupon holder/mad money stash...one is traditional:cash, check, credit cards, driver's license. I can't be without my "sours'" wintergreen mints from Victoria's Secret,and gum, Advil, handwipes, extra keys, pens, sticky notes, cell phone. It's not too much, is it? Haven't we been told to be PREPARED??

Valentines!

Brooklyn and Cache came over to decorate valentine cookies for their daddy. I baked and frosted, they "pinkled" (Cache). Bellamie gummed her graham crackers, although she probably would have rather had the pretty cookies! Brooklyn said, " These are for my daddy, but I will sneak some!" (After she determined that they were just like the Christmas cookies I make, only in heart shapes.)

Tribute to David Luedtke

Many months ago, one of David's classmates from West Point asked me to write a memorial article for inclusion in the West Point alumni record...and for his class's 50th reunion in 2009. I wrote a draft, he inserted some service experience that I didn't know...and it needed more work. SO, I turned the drafts over to Eden, who interviewed me about my remembrances of my brother...and crafted an eloquent tribute to her Uncle David, which will be published in the West Point magazine and placed in the cadet archives. I am so proud of Eden's efforts and wanted to include some photos I took during my high school class reunion... David's West Point uniform in the Mahler Museum in Berea, Ohio and his plaque in the Berea High School Hall of Fame.